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The traffic systems of Pompeii
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ISBN: 9780190614676 9780190614690 0190614692 0190614676 9780190614683 0190614684 9780190668709 0190668709 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press,

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"This book is the first sustained examination of the development of road infrastructure in Pompeii--from the archaic age to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE--and its implications for urbanism in the Roman empire"--Provided by publisher.


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The battle for the roads of Britain : police, motorists and the law, c. 1890s to 1970s
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ISBN: 9780230359321 0230359329 Year: 2015 Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan,

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"The onset of the automobile, both cars and other vehicles, on British roads brought about a seismic change in the social, economic and political history of Britain. Cars fundamentally challenged the established democracy of the road by forcing the authorities to channel the pedestrian, and children, out of the way of the unforgiving automobile and educating them in exercising road safety. They also forced the police to implement the three Es of 'Enforcement, Engineering and Education'--enforcing the law of the road, pressing for new technology for signals and other technologies, and educating school children--in an impartial attempt to ensure that life was protected. In this process, the police should not be seen as the tools of the motorists, middle class or working class, but as the impartial enforcers of legislation, introducing as such the 'policeman-state.' Consequently, policing fundamentally changed in Britain between 1900 and 1970, as the police moved from their 'feet to their seats' in controlling traffic as British policing became more integrated and introduced new technology and modern systems"--

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